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Whatever happened to...? Yeah, I know! Society, and the World... changed! But I remember when, before they built the Hillsdale Cinema... What? You don't know where the Hillsdale Cinema is/was? On El Camino Real, between TGIF and the Borders Book Store, across ECR from the front Hillsdale Parking lot, in from of the Nordstom's/Emporium Store... What? You don't know what I'm talking about?
Okay, before the Hillsdale Cinema was built, that location was the site of a Porky Pig All-You-Can-Eat Buffet Restaurant, where $3 could fill your belly!
Then there were also all the other All-You-Can-Eat places! AYCE Sphagetti. AYCE Pizza. AYCE Chinese. And on and on! All for about $3!
Okay, this is another Day and another Age! But, Hey! BRING BACK All-You-Can-Eat, for $3!
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Thanks for that walk down memory lane, Trismegistus! I think closest you'll find to AYCE for $3 is Taco Bell :) What's the cheapest AYCE place someone knows of? I think Mountain Mike's Pizza used to have an AYCE night.
Incidentally, the old AYCE restaurant that was there before the Hillsdale Cinema was built, was not named Porky Pig's but was, instead, a 'King's Table' franchise. I've been told that other such places existed in Seattle and elsewhere.
AYCE still lives on in Colma and Daly City R.T. Pizza at lunch time $6.99 just got the flyer 3- locations. I know it's not quite AYCE, but Harry's Hoffbrau always offers very good food and service for very reasonable prices at five points R.C. I've been enjoying them for over 40 years.
>Incidentally, the old AYCE restaurant that was there before the Hillsdale Cinema was built, was not named Porky Pig's but was, instead, a 'King's Table' franchise.
Hmmm, I seem to remember a Perry Boys Smorgy at or near that location during the 50s or 60s. Maybe Kings Table came later. Rex
Hey Rex, maybe you're right! Perry Boys Smorgy sounds familiar too. But I do seem to think that there was a Kings Table somewhere in the San Mateo area. Whoa! It's just coming to me now! The Kings Table was in Redwood City, on El Camino Real, where there is an Oriental restaurant now. This is South of the Woodside Road overpass, and almost across ELC from GEMCO... ah, which is now, I think, Target. Incidentally, GEMCO stood for Government Employees Merchandise Company, just like the auto insurer advertising on TV as GEICO is the Government Employees Insurance Company. No longer serving only government employees, of course!
$3 right now will only get you the $3 mini meals at mc donalds. :P
But I now see all these commercials on TV for $1.99 AYCE. Of course, only for the kids! And at some famous-named chain-of-restaurants that I've never heard of, certainly not around here! Why can't Sizzler go AYCE, on the entrees as well as the salad bar? But the local Burlingame Sizzler has disappointed me a while back. I thought I'd enjoy an old-fashioned Surf-n-Turf, but the lobster tail was mighty damn small and inconsequential. Perhaps it was just a crayfish-like 'lobster tail'. Come to think of it, at the corner of ELCR and Ralston in Belmont, some time ago, was an Asian Buffet that advertised AYCE lobster tail. But their 'lobster tails' were just like I got at Sizzler, more like a small crayfish.
Cicce's Pizza (spelling?), Gator's Neo Soul has a lunch buffett for $11-$12 T-Friday, I think. Fresh Choice in San Mateo and Redwood City. None of these are $3.00, but might be worth investigating.
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Well, maybe they can bring back the all you can eat but it most definitely won't be for $3!!! LOL Wuold most likely have at least a '1' in front of the '3'.